Since its launch the A Common Word initiativehas become the world's leading interfaith dialogue initiative between Christians and Muslims specifically, and has achieved historically unprecedented global acceptance and "traction" as an interfaith theological document. A Common Word was launched on October 13th 2007 as an open letter signed by 138 leading Muslim scholars and intellectuals (including such figures as the Grand Muftis of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Oman, Bosnia, Russia, Chad and Istanbul) to the leaders of the Christian Churches and denominations all over the world, including H.H. Pope Benedict XVI. In essence, it proposes— based on verses from the Holy Qur'an and the Holy Bible—that Islam and Christianity share at their core, the twin "golden" commandments of the paramount impor-tance of loving God and loving the neighbor. Based on this joint common ground, it called for peace and har-mony between Christians and Muslims worldwide.